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the film downwards in a watch-glass containing the stain, the excess 

 of staining heing afterwards discharged by simple washing. With 

 regard to the development of these germs into higher forms of life, 

 he had no practical experience, except in the case of measles, in 

 which, as already described, the two forms were seen, the rod-shaped 

 forms appearing on the fourth day. In the case of chicken-pox, he 

 had not been able to make this out, as he had not been able to trace 

 the subject out so well as he could have wished by continuing his 

 observations from day to day. 



Dr. Beale's drawings of organisms from Thames mud were 

 exhibited. 



Mr. C. J. MuUer's note on the decomposition of Synedra radians 

 by caustic potash was read [supra, p. 409). 



The following Instruments, Objects, &c., were exhibited : — 



Dr. Beale : — Drawings of organisms from Thames mud. 



Mr. Bolton : — Spawn of perch (?) 



Dr. Braidwood : — Three slides to illustrate his paper. (Section 

 of skin showing the Bacilli of Measles ; Fluid from the vesicles of 

 Varicella — chicken-pox; &c.) 



Mr. Coppock : — Cathcart's Ether-spray Freezing Microtome. 



Mr. Crisp : — Klonne and Miiller's " Pendulum " Stage and Micro- 

 scope. 



Mr. Hitchcock : — (1) Grunow's Camera Lucida. (2) Pease's 

 " Facility " Nose-piece. 



Mr. Watson : — New Microscope. 



New Fellows.— Messrs. E. T. Bastin, Thomas J. Burrill, A.M., 

 Ph.D., Lester Curtis, M.D., Henry J. Detmers, Edward D. Gravill, 

 Walter Townend, A. G. Warner, and James Whitson, M.D. 



Walter W. Reeves, 



Assist.- Secretary. 



